On Citing Dobzhansky about the Significance of Evolution to Biology

Author:

Giaimo Stefano1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology , 24306 Plön, Germany

Abstract

Synopsis Evolutionary thinking illuminates biology. Dobzhansky advocated this view in two distinct papers. The earliest paper (1964) is a discussion of the relationship between distinct biological disciplines, and one of the key ideas is that evolution is an integrative principle of biology. The later paper (1973) is a long argument to the effect that evolution makes more sense of the living than some creationist doctrines. The first paper should then be the primary reference for those biologists who cite Dobzhansky to champion among their peers the added value of evolutionary thinking in a specific scientific problem. Here, looking at citation data, we find evidence that this expected referencing practice does not coincide with the actual referencing practice in the scientific literature.

Funder

Max Planck Society

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Plant Science,Animal Science and Zoology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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